6600GT Broken?

[Jeomite]

I was trying to remove my eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT AGP from my case and accidently broke off one of the transistors (yeah, I know; I was careless and wasn't paying attention). I was wondering if I am screwed? I tried putting it back into my system and it seems to work fine without the transistor piece. Should I be worried?

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[Captante]

Tried running any games yet?

 

[Jeomite]

Nah, I don't play games on this system. It goes in one of my HTPC machines, which only plays videos out to my TV. I been playing videos on it for about 1-2 hours straight; no odd signs yet.

 

[nod218]

That's not a transistor, it's a capacitor. You can see from the C91 and the positive terminal. I once broke one of my video card and resoldered it back and it's been running for over 3 years now. One of my co-workers explained that it's not that important on a video card, it's mainly used to hold a charge so the chip has constant power.

 

[Captante]

If you arn't using the card for any gaming or other 3D stuff that pushs the GPU to its limits & requires maximum voltage theres a chance you'll be fine, but after looking at your pic again I think nod218 is correct about it being an easy solder-job if you want to try a repair yourself.

 

[40sTheme]

Since you don't run any games that would require a lot of constant power input it will work fine without it; but if any squealing, loss of video, etc starts happening, that means you probably need it.

 

[Zap]

A friend of mine did that to his Voodoo 3 BITD, but I soldered it back on and it worked fine.

 

[Jeomite]

Thanks for all the replies!

I don't know how to solder, so I guess I'll leave it at that for now. Once again, thanks for the help!